Martian Impact Craters
a morphological perspective
$272.52
- Hardcover
300 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Scars of the Red Planet: A Martian Crater Compendium
Our exploration of Mars has revealed a world as fascinating as Earth, with a changing climate, giant volcanoes, former oceans, polar ice caps, and numerous impact craters. This book provides a comprehensive summary of the morphology and distribution of meteorite craters on Mars, and the wealth of information these can provide on the crustal structure, surface geology, climate and evolution of the planet.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107154919 |
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| ISBN-10: | 110715491X |
| Series: | Cambridge Planetary Science |
| Author: | Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Joseph M. Boyce |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
About The Author
Peter J. Mouginis-Mark
Peter Mouginis-Mark is a planetary geomorphologist and is currently an Emeritus Researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and the Director of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Sustainability Initiative. He specialises in impact craters and volcanoes and has published over 140 peer-reviewed research papers on these topics.
Joseph Boyce is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Hawaii and was previously a program scientist on fifteen space missions from 1979–2002, many of which were to Mars, including the first Mars lander (Viking) and the first Mars rover (Pathfinder). He received NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal in 2002. Asteroid 1978 VO 5 BOYCE is named in honour of his scientific work on impact craters.
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